WORKS BY S. R. CROCKETT.
THE STICKIT MINISTER,
AND SOME COMMON MEN.
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"To come across a volume like this is indeed refreshing. No wailing pessimism mars our enjoyment with its dreary disbelief in humanity; every page exhibits a robust faith in the higher possibilities of our nature, and the result is distinctly successful. . . . The author has constructed stories full of grace and charm. Those to
whom humanity in its most primitive and least complex aspect is interesting will find real pleasure in studying Mr. Crockett's strong and sympathetic presentment of Scottish peasant life."—The Speaker.
THE RAIDERS.
BEING SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF JOHN FAA,
LORD AND EARL OF LITTLE EGYPT.
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"... The things that befell us in those strange years when the hill outlaws collogued with the wild freetraders of the Holland traffic, and fell upon us to the destruction of the life of man, the carrying away of much bestial, besides the putting of many of His Majesty's lieges in fear. . . ."—The Foreword.
MAD SIR UCHTRED OF THE HILLS.
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"Mr. Crockett is surely the poet-laureate of Galloway. The scene of his latest tale ('Mad Sir Uchtred') is laid among the hills with which we became familiar in 'The Raiders.' The Lady of Garthland makes a gracious and pathetic figure, and the wild and terrible Uchtred, the wrong done him, the vengeance which he did not take, all these things are narrated in a style of exquisite clearness and beauty. Mr. Crockett need not fear comparison with any of the young Scotsmen who are giving to English literature, just now, so much that is fresh, and wholesome, and powerful."—Boston Courier.
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WORKS BY ROLF BOLDREWOOD.
NEVERMORE.
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ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.
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We have nothing but praise for this story. Of adventure of the most stirring kind there is, as we have said, abundance. But there is more than this. The characters are drawn with great skill. Everyone of the gang of bushrangers is strongly individualized. We have not the mere catalogue of fortis Gyas fortisque Cloanthus, but genuine men. The father, a sturdy Englishman, whose whole nature is warped by early influences; the hero, poor "Jim," his brother, a simple, lovable fellow who might have gone straight under happier circumstances; Starlight, a gentleman by birth and education, who has a strange story behind him in the Old Country; and, lastly, the half-breed Warrigal,—are all admirable figures. This is a book of no common, literary force.—Spectator.
THE MINER'S RIGHT.
A TALE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS.
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Full of good passages, passages abounding in vivacity, in the color and play of life. . . . The pith of the book lies in its singularly fresh and vivid pictures of the humors of the gold-fields; tragic humors enough they are too, here and again. . . . The various types of humanity that strut, or in those days used to strut, across that strangest of the world's stage, an Australian gold-field, are capitally touched in, for Mr. Boldrewood can draw a man as well as tell a story.—World.
THE SQUATTER'S DREAM.
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A story of Australian life, told with directness and force. The author's mastery of his subjects adds much to the impressiveness of the story, which no doubt might be told as literally true of hundreds of restless and ambitious young Australians.—N. Y. Tribune.
A COLONIAL REFORMER.
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"Rolf Boldrewood" has written much and well on the Australian colonies, but chiefly in the form of novels, and good novels they are too. The Australian scenes, rural and urban, are vividly described by Mr. Boldrewood, and there are among the characters examples of the various adventurers and rogues that infest new countries, which recall our early California days. Whoever wants to know how they live in Australia will have the want supplied.—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
One of the most interesting books about Australia we have ever read.—Glasgow Herald.
Mr. Boldrewood can tell what he knows with great point and vigor, and there is no better reading than the adventurous parts of his books.—Saturday Review.
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